At his current rate he’ll tell 7 times as many lies in his first term, compared to Obama’s. If he serves two full terms, he’ll have outpaced him tenfold.

He’s on pace to finish his first term having told 35 (to Obama’s five), and his second term with 70 (to Obama’s nine).

Here’s a rough projection of his current rate.

So there you are – Donald Trump is, according to Politifact, only ten times the liar Obama was.

Of course, Politifact are human fact checkers with only so much time to record every utterance. We should also note that some will dismiss their analysis as partisan and fake news, because it criticises Donald Trump’s serial lies frequently.

[Ivanka] talks a good game, but there’s no substance. Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live, talking about ‘Make time for yourself to have a massage.’ Puh-lease.

The book is question is Ivanka’s latest title: Women Who Work: Redefining the Rules for Success, which was on the receiving end of some deliciously scathing reviews. Particularly as its release coincided with her becoming a White House advisor and receiving her own West Wing office space.

Dame Mirren also shared her thoughts on the First Lady Melania Trump, referring to her as “old Mel”

You look at old Mel there, and she is one of the most powerful women in the world because she could take him down.

Stephen Amell, the Canadian actor and star of The CW’s super hero series Arrow, attended Vancouver LGBT Pride this year, and posted a series of photos from the event on his Facebook. But it didn’t go down too well with some of his followers.

The actor who plays Green Arrow and who identifies as straight, is shown in one picture wearing a bunch of balloons arranged to look like a colourful peacock.

Because Pride is great.

Another photo shows him posing on a rainbow-painted pavement with his wife.

Most of the comments underneath the posts were nice, as you’d expect. But as always, there’s always a troll or two that has to ruin things for everyone else.

Some made fruitless comments about the cost of Pride. And definitely got the maths very wrong:

Amell responded in a later post, to say that he had been “taken aback” by some of the comments he’d read.

He wrote:

I had a fantastic weekend in Vancouver with my wife and friends, met some terrific people and more than anything just tried to soak in all the positive energy from people living their best lives. If I’m in Vancouver next year I won’t just go back, I’ll walk in the parade. So for everyone in their negative pants: Go be on the wrong side of history on somebody else’s Facebook page.

That’s not all, Amell also reposted the photos from Pride with some messages for the trolls themselves.

Prepare for the aftermath of nuclear armageddon by reading one of these eight books set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The writers at indy100 have spent National Book Day living in fear of the oncoming ‘fire and fury’ that Donald Trump has promised, so to ditstract ourselves we’ve put together a little list of the best reads.

Some of them have been made into films, in case you worry you won’t read them all before the bomb drops.

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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McCarthy’s novel follows a nameless father and son as they try to survive in a world destroyed by an unspecified cataclysm.

The landscape is never explained, but the devastation and daily struggle to survive is gripping.

McCarthy previously flexed his bleakness muscles in No Country for Old Men and Child of God.

The Road won the 2007 Pullitzer Prize for fiction.

2. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

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First published in 1951, the work is a cornerstone of the post-apocalyptic genre.

While the work does sketch out the horrific event – a comet shower that blinds most of the population – the action focuses on survival in a world filled with flesh eating plants.

Reflecting the Cold War era in which the work was written, the protagonist suspects that these plants ‘the Triffids’ were bioengineered by the Soviet Union.

Survival tips for anyone in the Wiltshire and Sussex countryside area abound within.

3. The Stand by Stephen King

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Some would classify this as horror, but if your post-apocalyptic setting is anything less than horrifying, it isn’t much of an apocalypse now is it?

Set in an America ravaged by an influenza epidemic, King’s novel has been reissued multiple times, shifting the date at which events take place from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.

According to King, writing in his non-fiction book Danse Macbre, the Stand was intended to be an epic in the style of modern day Lord of the Rings.

4. Pandemic: The Extinction Files by A.G Riddle

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Top of the Amazon bestseller list is Pandemic The Extinction Files by A.G Riddle.

The contemporary work, set mostly in Kenya, follows the outbreak of a mysterious disease and the attempts by scientists at the CDC and WHO to contain it.

Is the pandemic a true outbreak, or a sick conspiracy?

Guess what, read it and find out.

5. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

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First published in 1959, Frank’s work concerns a small town in Florida, which, by some miracle, survived a nuclear holocaust that destroyed the rest of the United States.

The nuclear blast is just the beginning, as the inhabitants of the town of Fort Repose join together to ward off bandits and raiders from the town, while news trickles through on the radio of America’s collapse.

6. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

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Another novel which borders on the genre of horror and a post-apocalyptic world, Swan Song tells the story of life after a Soviet nuclear strike.

Swan, the titular character, is a young girl with powers that could heal mankind.

If you don’t have one of these, McCammon’s novel nevertheless provides over 850 pages worth of survival tips, for living our existence in an abandoned petrol station,

7. Children of Men by P.D James

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The film for this by Alfonso Cuarón is also brilliant, so you’re excused if you just watch that instead, though the plots do differ significantly.

James, most known for crime fiction, sets her novel in a Britain where infertility is more or less universal. The last generation to be born maraud the countryside in hunting packs, while the cities are filled with the aged and the infirm.

Nuclear radiation is one probable cause for the state of infertility, but the true horror of James’ novel is the world where women like men have become unable to create, only to destroy.

8. World War Z by Max Brooks

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Written by the son of Mel Brooks, the book’s full title is ‘World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War’.

Unlike the Hollywood blockbuster starring Brad Pitt, the book World War Z reads more like a collated account of survivors from around the world. Each chapter reveals a story of a survivor who have overcome the zombie hoard in their own way; be it the traditional fighting sense, or simply organising and micro-managing a civilisation. It’s the sort of thing you’d despair to read now, if the subject matter concerned the gradual reconstruction of a country that had at some point fallen to civil war – but throw some crazy virus infected monsters in there and you have a real page turner.

The Z are Zombies, and although that’s not currently on the cards, we will not be ruling anything out.

Any time of year is good to read a book but it’s important to be aware of special events that are happening in the literary world.

Take for instance this month, which is Women in Translation Month, an initiative created by literature charity The Reading Agency.

The aim of the month is to celebrate and spread the word about female writers from around the world.

According to the charity, books written by foreign female authors don’t receive as much translations as books written by men .

Of all the literary translations in the UK and America, less than a third are by women.

Now that there is a whole month we thought it would be best to shine a light on some of the most important female writers ever.

Rather than simply giving our opinion on who we think are the best here is a list of all the foreign female novel writers who have won the prestigious Nobel Prize and some of there most noteworthy books.

Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof

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Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to ever received the literature prize, way back in 1909.

Her most notable book, Jerusalem was an epic two part tale published between 1901 and 1902.

It spans several generations of Swedish emigrants in the 19 century who moved to Jerusalem, as well as families in Dalarna, Sweden.

The novel, which is based on true events has since been adapted into films and stage productions.

Reeds in the Wind by Grazia Deledda

Deledda was the writer of many famous Italian books that were adapted in to films, TV shows and plays.

Reeds in the Wind, or Canne al vento in Italian, is set in the harsh landscape of Sardinia and focuses on the themes of poverty, society and industry.

First published in 1913, it remains the most widely regarded of the authors work.

Deledda received her Nobel Prize in 1926 but passed away just 10 years later, aged 64.

Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian writer, who was originally born in Denmark.

She often wrote realistic and contemporary novels about adultery and undoubtedly her most famous work was Kristin Lavaransdatter.

The book is a series of three novels focusing on the titular character, a fictitious woman living in 14 century and the various conflicts she experiences in her life.

These books helped Undset win the 1928 Nobel Prize and was first translated into English in the same decade.

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

Female sexuality, abuse and the battle of genders are the main points of topic in most of Austrian writer, Elfriede Jelinek’s work.

The 2004 Nobel Prize winner is an outspoken and controversial individual whose writing and political activism often inspired fierce debates.

Her 1983 novel The Piano Teacher was her first novel to be translated into English and follows an repressed piano teacher who enters a sadomasochistic relationship with her student.

In 2001 it was turned into an awarded winning film directed Michael Haneke and starring Isabelle Huppert.

The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller

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Romanian – German author Herta Muller, depicts the aftermath of violence in her work, for which she was awarded the Noble Prize in 2009.

At the time they described her as “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossesed.”

The Hunger Angel which was translated into English in 2012 is her most famous novel.

Inspired by the experiences of her mother and the poetry of Oskar Pastior, it follows the troubled lives of ethnic Germans living in Stalinist Romanian during and after World War II.

Eliza Hatch is on a mission to spread the word about what people need to understand about sexual harassment.

She’s created Cheer Up Luv, a project enabling women to have their voices heard and “take ownership of experiences that were out of their control” – while also turning vulnerability into empowerment.

We spoke to Hatch about her fantastic project.

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Hatch explained to indy100 that starting the project was drawn from the appalling frequency of sexual harassment women face every day.

I became increasingly shocked at the sheer amount of sexual harassment women experienced. Right at the beginning, I wasn’t aware of the scale that it was taking place, but now, it seems as though every woman I speak to has at least three examples they can give me.

Unfortunately it’s just a normal part of day-to-day life for women, and so much so, that sometimes we barely acknowledge that it’s a form of abuse, i.e. being told to smile, or being beeped at by a car.

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She added that women have “really opened up” to her when speaking about their experiences.

The general sense has been relief, because we are finally talking about something that barely gets any attention. There is also understandably a lot of anger and frustration surrounding the issue, but ultimately I try and turn these negative thoughts and experiences into something positive.

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Hatch also explained that she was made aware of sexual harassment from a young age.

I grew up in a big city and am used to being catcalled and sexually harassed. When I was younger, I was more oblivious to the fact that it was happening to everyone, and didn’t care as much. You either just brushed it off and carried on, or mentioned it to a friend, only to find out that they had had similar experiences. It was only until earlier this year, after one particular cat call, and a heated debate with my close friends, that something switched inside me and I decided enough was enough.

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Finally, Hatch told us exactly why she thinks these unacceptable acts still happen so frequently.

There are two problems; one is that nobody really talks about it, and two is that when it does happen in public, it is generally completely ignored.

It has happened to me many times, and it will continue to happen as long as we keep normalising harassment. We just need to change our attitude to sexual harassment and stand up to it.

When Heather asked where Kaelyn was, her response of ‘a movie night with Stevie’ wasn’t enough.

Not to be deterred, her mother wanted further proof and requested photo evidence.

This is where the game between the two truly began.

Heather knows that Kaelyn keeps a camera roll full of selfies just for occasions like this, so when the first picture arrived she had a series of demands prepared in order to test her daughters honesty.

They started off fairly normal.

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Heather wasn’t being fooled, and suspected that her daughter might have edited her friend into the photo.

This called for the ultimate request, a selfie while Stevie was giving her a piggy back and a thumbs up.

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Picture: Twitter/ Screengrab

W o w.

Kaelyn, who is starting college next month, shared the conversation on Twitter and it quickly went viral.

I’d be the first to admit mixed. I’m a guy that will tell you mixed. There was no mix there.

That was a standing ovation from the time I walked out to the time I left, and for five minutes after I had already gone. There was no mix.

He had, in fact, been widely criticised.

Regardless, Trump continued:

And I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.

So there was — there was no mix.

The Boy Scouts of America told TIME magazine that they were unaware of any call from national leadership placed to the White House, and referred to a 27 July statement from Michael Surbaugh, Chief Scout Executive for the Boy Scouts of America, who said of Trump’s speech:

For years, people have called upon us to take a position on political issues, and we have steadfastly remained non-partisan and refused to comment on political matters.

We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.

White House press-spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders later confirmed no call had been placed, but that “multiple members of the Boy Scout leadership” had “offered quite powerful compliments.”

I wouldn’t say it was a lie. That’s a pretty bold accusation. The conversations took place, they just simply didn’t take place over a phone call … he had them in person.

On Wednesday the story that Queen Elizabeth II likes to put away the booze circulated on viral news websites such as Unilad, NewsAU, and theNew York Post.

The titbit, that HMQ regularly drinks four cocktails a day, has thrilled her subjects the world over.

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The source cited in these stories, is none other than the Independent, in a post written in 2012 to coincide with her Golden Jubilee.

According to Margaret Rhodes, the Queen’s cousin, HM’s alcohol intake never varies. She takes a gin and Dubonnet before lunch, with a slice of lemon and a lot of ice. She will take wine with lunch and a dry Martini and a glass of champagne in the evening.

The piece continued, making the same point made by Unilad and others five years later:

That comes to 6 units per day, which would make Her Majesty a binge drinker by government standards.

Who would have thought that Trump would have invented one of the modern worlds great memes?

If you haven’t quite picked up on what is happening here, Danny has Photoshopped quotes around certain Trump tweets in order to spell out the first few lines of the 1999 song ‘All Star’ by Smash Mouth.

It’s all an elaborate ruse for internet based hijinks.

Alas, Donald Trump does put quotation marks around a lot of words, but so far they don’t spell out anything particularly meaningful.

Eventually we might be able to spell something out of them, but for now we’ll just have to wait and see.

LBC host James O’Brien makes the correct point that the promise to eradicate student debt does not appear in the Labour manifesto.

Yet it was still something they said they would do.

In an interview with NME published a week before the election, Corbyn spoke about those who had already paid the £9,000 a year tuition fee, and taken on maintenance loans.

Yes, there is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I’m looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.

He added.

And I don’t see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it

‘I will deal with it’.

The policy was also stated in the terms of eradicating existing debt by one of Corbyn’s Labour candidates, who was previously and is once again the MP for Bradford East.

On Tuesday the journalist Ella Wilks-Harper shared this Facebook video of a shadow Justice Minister Imran Hussain explicitly making the pledge.

Just this morning it has been announced by Jeremy Corbyn that the tuition fees will be abolished straight away from September if there’s a Labour government, and that will bring back EMA, and also that every existing student will have all their debts wiped off.

Since the election, the wheels have come off the suggestion of an idea.

The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell announced that the policy was an ‘aspiration’ rather than something that was promised.

In addition, Corbyn admitted he did not know the cost of eradicating historic student debt when he spoke before the election.

He told Andrew Marr on Sunday that when he said he would ‘deal with it’, this was not a promise.

What I said was we would ‘deal with it’ by trying to reduce the burden of it. We never said we would completely abolish it because we were unaware of the size of it at the time.

‘Bonkers’

The broadcaster James O’Brien has called the media’s coverage of these events ‘bonkers’.

The Tories famously made a promise in their manifesto to make changes to social care funding, which they then promised would not happen.

And O’Brien says they’ve basically abandoned most of their ‘promises’.

Much of this can be explained due to parliamentary arithmetic, and a belief that the 42 per cent of the popular vote they secured did not give them enough of a mandate.

O’Brien slammed the media:

Apparently if you are a certain type of journalist – that apparently you think people are so stupid that when you tell them Jeremy Corbyn told a porkie-pie that wasn’t in the manifesto, that he never actually told, you’ve got such faith in the stupidity of your readers and your audience that you think they’re going to start gnashing their teeth when you tell them that’s he told a lie.

He continued:

If you need a better illustration of how bonkers the British media has become, surely that would be it.

It is possible ‘the media’ has focused on the perception that Jeremy Corbyn was dishonest. This concept, and the stories surrounding untruths, are only made more appealing to journalists because Jeremy Corbyn is the one who once pledged to create a new ‘Straight Talking, Honest Politics’.

Come July 2017, the same polling company put her on -7, while in June she had almost completely reversed her rating with a different company, polling -34 per cent approval from YouGov.

A similar dip happens with most leaders, particularly because once they’re in power they have to start making decisions and that means somebody, somewhere, is going to be disappointed.

All prime ministers lose something once the honeymoon period wears off, but according to this comparison, May has had one of the biggest drops.

Comparing the Ipsos MORI net satisfaction score during the first 12 months of British prime ministers, the Daily Telegraph found Theresa May’s popularity went south by the largest amount.

As each poll was conducted one month into their premierships, there are 11 results for each prime ministers’ first 12 months in the above chart.

Of the last four leaders of the country, May has had the worst fall.

May -42

Cameron -34

Brown +7

Blair -26

While Gordon Brown was the only Prime Minister of the four to increase his net satisfaction after 12 months in office, he was working from a low baseline of -16 when he took power in June 2007, raising it to -9 a year later.

By contrast his successor David Cameron, despite losing 34 points, was still more popular than Brown one year in, with -3.

It’s worth nothing that Tony Blair finished a year into the job just one point below where Theresa May began.

Further to fall

By looking at how each of their ratings changed month to month, you can see that Gordon Brown almost had a simple bell curve. His popularity declined and then improved almost at the same rate it had been declining.

Theresa May by contrast had a much more erratic net satisfaction rating.

Significant political events could be one explanation for May’s ups and downs.

In September 2016 her push for Grammar Schools coincided with a big drop down (16), then her visit to meet Donald Trump in January (6), and then an up tick when the Supreme Court caused a stir when they ruled on Brexit (17).

Similarly triggering Article 50 gave May another boost (up to 19), which was more or less sustained until the Tory manifesto and the ‘dementia tax’ debacle during the general election.

Now 12 months in, May has only just dipped into negative figures. Her immediate predecessor Cameron did this during his seventh month.

So at least that’s something for the Prime Minister to be pleased about.

Walking the tube

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If you regularly find yourself in the endless maze of tunnels that is King’s Cross, you might not feel you need any more exercise. For the rest of us, TfL have created a series of handy maps that encourage you to stop sitting around (or, more likely, standing) on the tube.

The series measures the number of steps and walking times between stations, which is helpful if you find yourself between Leicester Square and Covent Garden at rush hour.

Where is the nearest toilet?

It includes information on whether facilities are inside or outside the station’s barriers, whether the toilets may charge, which toilets are accessible for wheelchair users and which stations have baby-changing facilities.

If you have claustrophobia or anxiety

TfL created this map to show sections of the tube network that are above ground to help people who suffer from claustrophobia or anxiety. The aim is to help commuters avoid routes they are uncomfortable with by highlighting tunnels in grey.

Where your bike is allowed

Cycling is so convenient, right? Right, apart from when it’s time to lug your bike on the tube and the attendant at the barrier stops you. TfL has created this map to show where unfolded bicycles are allowed, though they are never allowed during the morning and evening rush hours. Note that folded bikes can be taken on at any time.

If you’re feeling interactive

Tuber map is a slick, good-looking online tool that shows you the fastest route between any two tube stations plus the journey time and price.

When not to travel

If you have the luxury of not having to travel during rush hour, then why are you travelling during rush hour? This beautiful animated map shows the busiest times on the tube, so you can avoid them.

With its colour-coded bar charts and in-built statistics, it’s fun to obsess over when you’re not travelling too.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that all optical illusions simply exist to baffle us – there’s one that can actually help our eyesight.

Looking at one particular optical illusion can improve our ability to see fine details, including writing, according to researchers from the University of York and University of Glasgow.

This particular illusion is called the “expanding motion aftereffect”. Looking at it can make objects appear bigger than they really are.

The researchers asked 74 people to watch the spiral pattern, either rotating clockwise or anticlockwise for 30 seconds. One group would have seen an expanding motion, and the others, a contracting one.

This is the exact image they watched:

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They were then asked to identify a set of letters on a logMAR eye chart – the one you’re asked to recite at the optician’s, with the increasingly small rows of letters. They did this task beforehand, too.

The researchers found that the participants’ vision differed depending on which spiral they watched. Those who looked at the clockwork spirals experienced improved vision afterwards.

But those who saw the anticlockwise spirals actually performed worse than before – proving that staring at optical illusions can also temporarily worsen vision, too.

The fact that what they watched was either a contracting or expanding motion, the study states, meant that “the ensuing motion aftereffect created illusory expansion or contraction in the test images”.

Research has revealed at what age you’re too old for clubbing. Apparently, it’s 37.

Once you hit 37, you’re seen as too old for a night on the town, with a brutal 37 per cent of respondents saying that there’s nothing more “tragic” than seeing revellers in their 40s and 50s surrounded by twenty somethings.

However, most people are over big nights out by the time they hit their early 30s, with 31 being the age Britons begin to trade in the tequila for a takeaway.

In fact, almost half of the 5000 adults who took part in the study by Currys PC World (via Mixmag) prefer a cosy night in with the telly to an evening in the pub or at a club, with 30 per cent describing their ideal night-in as one lounging around and watching a boxset.

Part of the reason is economic – a big night out doesn’t come cheap, with an average night setting you back £35 (we assume this is outside of London).

On the other hand, a perfect night in – complete with a take-away, drinks and snacks – comes at half of that, at £17.

It’s no surprise then, that six in ten told the study that going out has become “too expensive.” Awful hangovers were a pretty major deterrent too, with 29 per cent being put off by the repercussions of a night out.

Matt Walburn, Brand and Communications Director of Currys PC World said that the study shows that “there comes a time when we appreciate our home comforts more than a hectic social life, and it can often be a drag to play the social butterfly at parties and nights out”.

While this may be true for some, I’m sure there are plenty of people over 37 who disagree – and look forward to their next night out, no matter how “tragic” some people say it looks.

Tory disunity

July 2016: May is the golden leader among her backbenchers and party members. Falling into line behind the new boss, Tory back benchers were delighted by her appeal to voters in Labour heartlands.

July 2017: Without a majority, May makes a deal with the Democratic Unionists that offends supporters of sexual equality, and costs the tax paper an extra billion pounds in public spending. Backbenchers reportedly search for another candidate to replace her, and May is only saved because they came up short.

Speaking with the Huffington Post, the political historian Anthony Selsdon called it the worst crisis for the Conservatives in a century.

The Tory Party is now more in trouble than at any point for 100 years since the immediate aftermath of the First World War.

The Tory Party is now more divided than it was over Suez, more divided than at any point [since] 1918.

I think it’s down to the fact the country was anyway in a difficult position because Brexit was going to go wrong,

I think she was in a ‘no-win’ situation over the General Election. If it hadn’t been called, she would be having a terribly difficult summer, people would be saying she’d blown it.

In an interview with the Sun published 12 July, May said she wanted to be prime minister for ‘the next few years’, in order to see through Brexit negotiations.

Human relationships are never a walk in the park – no matter what that infuratingly perfect couple tell you on their wedding day.

So here are just a few of the major ‘deal breaker’ moments that have ended relationships, as ranted about on dating forums.

indy100 has found the red flag moments most people complain about.

1. They act like your child

I remember waking up one day and realising I wasn’t his girlfriend, I was his mother. I dumped him that day. I didn’t even cry. I was so relieved.

Writing on reddit, the user ‘KitchenSwillForPigs’ relayed this common complaint, that you’re actually parenting your partner instead of being with them. As well as this being no fun, it’s a bad sign of their character that they’re taking advantage of you like this.

2. Their friends annoy you

This came up a frequently among people seeking advice. Although there are only as many people in a relationship as you want, a person’s friends are often an extension of them. Being incompatible with the friends might mean you’re not the best fit.

It’s true that everyone has one or two friends that are “special” (read: weird) that you have to tolerate. However, if all of your boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s friends drive you nuts and these pals have been around since the sixth grade, odds are that the situation will not go away. If your new steady is surrounded by a village of idiots—guess what—your dearest is probably one too.

3. They make you feel drained

It’s officially not fun anymore when you come away from time with them and feel exhausted, but not in a “we had so much sex bring some Lucozade now, please, I beg you” exhausted.

Dr Ian Kerner, a relationship therapist for goodinbed.com told Saga this red flag can be resolved, but you shouldn’t attempt the impossible.

Try to pinpoint what it is about being with your partner that makes you feel this way… Then try to raise the issue with him or her. If you can’t resolve it, or if you feel you don’t want to put energy into trying, it could be time to walk away.

4. They don’t trust you

Not trusting you can be due to their own insecurities, but it’s not your fault, and nor is it your job to go above and beyond the call of duty to show them you’re trustworthy.

PastyNProud on reddit regaled readers with this tale:

He yelled at me and accused me of cheating because he found another man’s pubic hair on my toilet seat.

It was dog hair.

He still didn’t believe me when I got the dog and compared its fur to the hair found on the toilet seat.

5. Odd behaviour

Some of these red flags seem very specific, like this one from ‘Craignate’ on reddit.

She tried to kick a pigeon and fell over.

Or this weird accusation said to ‘Darthvault19’.

Accusing me of trying to poison him by putting a cockroach in his coffee.

6. They’re rude to waiters.

Another recurring character trait that puts people off their date, is when the person is rude to the person bringing them food.

This is a hard and fast rule for friendships too.

Getting help for more serious concerns

Some of the posts were much less jovial, and constituted abuse, both physical and mental.

A new study has revealed the photo techniques men and women use on Tinder.

Is having six photos too many? Do you look needy?

Does only three make you look like there are only three passable photos of you in existence?

Tinder etiquette, and coming across well on the image-dominated website, is difficult.

To cope with this, it seems users have developed some interesting techniques.

Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, studies selfies from 900 heterosexual participants.

The author of the paper, Jennifer Sedgewick, created two fake Tinder profiles – one of a heterosexual male and one of a heterosexual woman.

Research assistants were then asked to categories screenshots of 557 Tinder profile images, and categorise them into above or below angle shots.

Prior to the study, the team hypothesised:

[Tinder users] may intuitively know to select an image where the vertical angle of the camera is consistent with how they want to be presented to the opposite sex: for men, from below to appear larger and dominant (i.e., powerful) and for women, from above to look smaller and submissive (i.e. less powerful.)

Get Down

The results showed that 25 per cent of women took a photo from above, with the camera pointing down at them.

By contrast, only 16 per cent of men did the same.

Keep it above the waist

However, 40 per cent of men took photos from below, typically from the waist up. This was only the case 16 per cent of female Tinder users surveyed.

The team stressed that not much could be extrapolated from this, given that the personalities of the participants were unknown to the researchers.

However, they did suggest that men may wish to adhere to stereotypes of masculinity, such as being tall, and having a more defined chin. These traits can be accentuated by a camera angle from the waist up.

Women also tended to use a selfie as their first image (90 per cent), compared to just 54 per cent of men who opted for a photo taken by someone else.

The results were published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology in June 2017.

The BBC’s head of political programming is leaving the broadcaster to become Prime Minister Theresa May’s new director of communications.

Robbie Gibb, who’s worked at the BBC for 23 years, has edited the Daily Politics, This Week, and the Andrew Marr show and is the former deputy-editor of Newsnight. He also organised major political events for the BBC, such as the Brexit debate at Wembley.

I am pleased to announce I will be leaving the BBC to join the Prime Minister, Theresa May, as her new Director of Communications

He is the brother of schools minister Nick Gibb and worked in Conservative headquarters in the 1990s before joining the BBC.

His predecessor, Katie Perrior, quit before the general election. Her LinkedIn states she is “Most definitely no longer the Director of Communications to the Prime Minister, No.10 Downing Street”.

The broadcaster is now facing allegations of bias from both left and right wing politicians.

In the nineties Gibb worked for Tory MP Francis Maude, and helped on Michael Portillo’s campaign for Conservative party leader in 2001.

The recent general election saw many Downing Street staff quit their jobs.

Gibb will presumably have the tough challenge of rebuilding Theresa May’s reputation, she is currently at a record low personal approval rating, and the Conservatives have continued to slip in the polls compared to Labour since the election last month.

An innovator in story-telling on television and an unrelenting advocate of the BBC, its independence and our public service role.

The signal quality he and his programmes have shown is the willingness to speak truth to power – I suspect it will come in handy.

Gibb has been a staunch defender of the BBC’s independence, most notably after Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications accused the BBC of bias over the on-air resignation of a shadow minister of the BBC Daily Politics.

Sir Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s head of communcaitons, was also plucked from the BBC’s ranks, where he was the editor of the Ten O’Clock news.

The role he enters was first created in Tony Blair’s government, who gave the job to Alistair Campbell, a former press secretary, in 2000.

Gibb’s appointment has led to criticism of the BBC, who are fighting of accusations of impartiality.

BBC’s head of political programming competing vs BBC’s diplomatic editor to be Theresa May’s head of communications. That’ll go down well.

When you were learning about renewable energies at school, solar panels never seemed cute.

They do now.

Check out this Solar Farm built by Panda Green Energy.

Picture: Panda Green Energy

The Panda Power Plant aims to provide clean energy, but it also forms part of a project to advocate the benefits of renewable energy, as agreed with the United Nations Development Program.

The project hopes to raise young peoples’ awareness of the most critical issues faced by society, especially regarding climate change and clean energy, and promote stronger leadership from within youth groups for sustainable development action.

There will also be a nine-day youth summer camp, 10-18 August at the first Panda Solar Farm in Datong County, Shanxi Province, and will bring together 50 committed Chinese-speaking youths, aged between 13-17.

The Panda Power Plant can provide 3.2 billion kWh of green electricity in 25 years, equivalent to saving 1.056 million tonnes of coal, or reducing 2.74 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

In the next five years, Panda Green Energy plans to continue building ecological plants in “Belt and Road” countries and areas.

4. London, 19 June 1993

5. New York, 11 July 1976

Gay Rights demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in New York City, 11 July 197.

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6. London, 1984

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7. London, 1987

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8. London, July 1994

A marcher dressed as Marilyn Monroe during the annual Gay Pride march in London, July 1994.

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9. London, 24 June 1995

Men in camouflage trousers riding a pink tank and carrying rainbow flags during the Lesbian and Gay Pride event, London, 24 June 1995.

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10. London, 24 June 1995

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11. London, 4 July 1997

Members of the Gay Liberation Movement protesting outside the Old Bailey over Mary Whitehouse’s court action against the Gay News Magazine.

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12. London, 30 June 1979

Police accompany the carnival winding its way through London at the end of the International Gay Pride Week, an event marking the tenth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, and with them the birth of the gay Liberation Movement.

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13. San Francisco, c. 1972

A participant at a Gay Pride gathering in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California: c. 1972.

14. Hollywood, 1982

LGBT Pride Month had just ended in the US, but here in the UK the Pride in London celebrations keep going into July.

To celebrate, two of the world’s leading porn sites xHamster and PornHub, have released some stats about who watches the most gay porn and what gay porn they predominantly like.

This article is about gay porn, so contains lots of NSFW language and chat, obviously.

“Gay porn” refers to videos in which men are having sex with men (so these findings don’t count lesbian porn or account for the sexuality or genders of those watching. While women make up 26 per cent of the visitors to PornHub, they are reportedly 37 per cent of the viewers watching gay male porn.)

According to xHamster, those in West Virginia are watching the most gay porn and those in Oregon are watching the least.

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They also revealed what kind of porn is getting uploaded the most by state.

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According to PornHub, what kind of gay porn you like to watch depends on where in the US you live.

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For example; people in Utah are 845 per cent more likely to search for “Mormon”. While people in West Virginia are 152 percent more likely to search for “redneck”. Elsewhere, South Dakotans are 569 per cent more likely to look up “furry”. And the good folks of New York are 454 per cent more likely to search “dominican”.

LGBT Pride Month had just ended in the US, but here in the UK the Pride in London celebrations keep going into July.

To celebrate, two of the world’s leading porn sites xHamster and PornHub, have released some stats about who watches the most gay porn and what gay porn they predominantly like.

This article is about gay porn, so contains lots of NSFW language and chat, obviously.

“Gay porn” refers to videos in which men are having sex with men (so these findings don’t count lesbian porn or account for the sexuality or genders of those watching. While women make up 26 per cent of the visitors to PornHub, they are reportedly 37 per cent of the viewers watching gay male porn.)

According to xHamster, those in West Virginia are watching the most gay porn and those in Oregon are watching the least.

Picture: xHamster

They also revealed what kind of porn is getting uploaded the most by state.

Picture: xHamster

According to PornHub, what kind of gay porn you like to watch depends on where in the US you live.

Picture: PornHub

For example; people in Utah are 845 per cent more likely to search for “Mormon”. While people in West Virginia are 152 percent more likely to search for “redneck”. Elsewhere, South Dakotans are 569 per cent more likely to look up “furry”. And the good folks of New York are 454 per cent more likely to search “dominican”.

The government has reaped all the loose change out of people’s pockets so all the pubs are shut now, the shops are shutting, it’s the same old story all over I think, apart from London – that’s where all the money is.

Others did try to be a bit more positive, like teenager Charlie Corrigan.

I like it because I’ve always lived here.

It always looks a little bit run down but it’s not too bad, there are a few places to hang around and my mates all live around here.

That’s the spirit.

Council worker June House, had the best response to the news.

We are trying really hard. Lots of things have happened.

We’ve had a few disasters such as the ferry crash in 1987 and the fact that there are a lot of vacant shops in the town.

But I think in all of that we always smile and get on and think that life is going to get better.

She continued.

We’re great. we’ve got the seaside, we’ve got the castle, we’ve got the most amazing heritage that you could ever want and it’s such a fantastic castle.

How could you say it’s not a great place to live? It is a very pretty town and I think people see all the negatives.

They see the homeless people who are sleeping by the local shops but it is such a diverse town.

I think it’s great.

How many towns do you see where they’ve still got a Marks and Spencer in the town centre and a WH Smith?

He found that there’s a roughly 75 per cent chance that ‘i’ goes before ‘e’ in a word, regardless of whether there is a ‘c’ before it – it, statistically speaking, made very little difference to the ratio.

Here’s the ie/ei split following each letter of the alphabet (‘^’ denotes words beginning with either ‘ei’ or ‘ie):

Recently, presumably to alleviate office boredom or simply to operate as a some sort of comic relief, Chef decided it would be a good idea to prank one of his fellow workers, who shall be referred to as D.

Chef came up with the idea to hide a small, Bluetooth speaker in the vent above D’s desk, and quietly play the 1977 Disco classic Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees the entire day.

At 7:00AM PST, I placed a small Bluetooth speaker in the HVAC duct above his head, and have been playing “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees on repeat since then. It’s only barely audible, and the way the louvers are, only he can hear it.

So far, this is his discovery:

7:30AM- I noticed him stop, look around, close his eyes, and seemingly try to listen for something. He shook it off and continued talking.

8:15AM- He mentioned a car driving by playing some music that sounded familiar. No car passed.

8:45AM- Started humming the song after I had turned it down.

9:30AM- Asked what music I was playing on my computer. Came over, searched, found nothing. Looked at other co-worker, who just shrugged. Went back to talking.

10:00AM- Turned up the music when he was around the corner. Came running back, I turned it down. He asked a customer “did you hear that?” Customer said, “hear what?” D shook his head and ignored it.

10:30AM- One of the warehousemen played “Stayin’ Alive” on their warehouse speakers very loudly. D closed the door to the warehouse. I turned my speaker up. Five minutes later, he went into the warehouse, where a different song was playing. I turned down my speaker. He sat down, and started searching under his desk, presumably for a source of the noise.

I will keep you posted as to further updates.

11:00AM- He’s leaving for lunch. Turned it up when he was in the bathroom so he could hear it through the bathroom ducting. Left in a hurry.

12:05 He’s back from lunch. He briefly tried to take up residence in another office before getting booted. He’s going through the task manager on his computer and killing tasks, and playing with volume options.

12:26PM F*CK F*CK F*CK THE SPEAKER DIED, RUNNING RECON RIGHT NOW WILL UPDATE

12:33PM He ran to the store for a pack of smokes. Working on rigging up a hard wire. There’s an outlet up in the ceiling. Getting ext cable.

12:44PM Alright, so, it’s back up and running with a slight problem… D just got back, and one of our guys is in the ceiling still.

1:09PM I have to leave for lunch. Got our guy out of the ceiling after about ten minutes. I’ll try to figure out how to update the original post, but I never have figured out how to do that… I’ll work on it. Be back soon.

1:10PM Okay, have a lot to update. Back from lunch. Apparently he’s under the impression someone is pranking him, but unsure how. He’s been upstairs checking around to see if there’s anything up there, to no avail. Turned it down for a few moments.

2:30 OTHER COWORKER HAD A GREAT IDEA. We’re now playing music on our own individual computers at a normal volume. It’s creating a weird Vortex of music. We’ve upped the volume of Stayin Alive. We can all hear it, but it’s indistinguishable from other things.

3:02 Oh sh*t guys he broke down and confronted us. Shouting sh*t like “I know you’re doing this” etc etc. But he has no proof. He’s now just sitting outside smoking and pouting haha.

3:17 He’s back at his desk like nothing happened. Stayin’ Alive is still playing. Even customers can’t hear it, so he’s really confused.

4:01PM, He shot out of here like a cannon. When he grabbed his keys, I upped the volume to max, and everyone started dancing to the music (about five of us). He dropped his keys and starting yelling “f*ck you, guys!”